Private examination
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An examination or interrogation, by a magistrate, of a married woman who is grantor in a deed or other conveyance, held out of the presence of her husband, for the purpose of ascertaining whether her will in the matter is free and unconstrained.
Muir v. Galloway, 61 Cal. 506; Hadley v. Geiger, 9 N. J. Law, 233.